The gentrification debate is always amusing to me because the biggest problem is that nobody wants us in their neighborhoods or schools and the question of where housing goes can’t really be addressed without attacking that as an unwell perspective and overruling it

£1 in every £11 spent on UK public contractors goes on private equity - a galling statistic in this excellent bit of reporting from my colleagues @michaelgoodier.bsky.social @c-aguilargarcia.bsky.social and others www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So we’re clear, making it legal to target Haitians and Somalians means making it legal to “suspect” and ensnare every Black American going about their daily lives. This is all part of criminalizing Blackness in America. The instability is the point.

CPS, like all other enforcement apparatus of the state, targets people by class and race. In 2024, a Black child was eight times more likely to be in a report and investigation than a White child. The vast majority of investigations find no wrongdoing— but all are traumatizing.

“We believe in a bright future where the rich get richer and people keep getting executed by cops”

Hindutva is built on caste solidarity which ultimately holds that patriarchal kinship and caste ties triumph every other kind of morality. I absolutely reject this. If you think your casteist/Islamophobic relative is more important than the LIVES of non-upper caste Hindus, you have no moral compass.

The makers of perv glasses really leaning into the brand here.

How did China extract tech from Western companies? In this week's episode of The Economics Show I spoke to John Minnich about his research looking into the lessons from the successes (and failures) of China's tech transfer policies.

Glad to see this getting attention. But where we take it makes a world of difference. The point isn’t new: I’ve been making it for a decade, and that was based on heterodox pol econ literature of the 80s–90s. But it was inadmissible under neoliberal hegemony. Why the change? 1/

Is he winning because he gets things done or is he getting things done because he’s winning? Maybe it’s just believing something wholeheartedly that you’re not willing to trade away? In any case, the old guard has a lot to learn. There’s no ring kissing on the horizon for the DC suits. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Nice roundup on NYC election results by @lizafeatherstone.bsky.social. Yes, socialist candidates were helped by Zohran’s popularity. But old-fashioned grassroots campaigning mattered a lot more. jacobin.com/2026/06/dsa-...

Good morning team! Ukraine is making life miserable for Russians. Beyond Crimea, there are gasoline shortages across Russia. Gift link.

scroll.in/article/1093... What a totally embarrassing shitshow. Modi’s remaking of Indian foreign policy has squandered decades of outsize influence and strategic relationships at huge cost to ordinary Indians. Welcome to the great Hindu Rashtra of stupidity.

The 13 are nobodies who, I guess, want to get some exposure. Maybe they could feature fighting fascism as the purpose of their initiative? That looks like it's getting votes.

Man, this country’s demand for assimilation over integration has caused so much pain. To renounce who you are in service of what? Not annoying someone different than you?

In 2018, the Knicks won 29 games, Elon Musk was worth a paltry $20 billion, a publicly-owned social media platform named "Twitter" banned hate speech & polls showed a growing no. of white ppl felt "under attack." We thought it sounded absurd, too So we looked at the data

We are in a full on dictatorship, rivaling the most entrenched ones in the world. Anti ICE activists, who printed a zine, are labeled “terrorist” and sentenced to 30-100 years in federal prison. By this metric we’re all targets. Genuinely chilling. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

If you've seen this story today, you know about it because of @syracuse.com and the reporter @mbreidenbach.bsky.social. Support your local paper.

I gather that mine is an unpopular opinion: but the Supreme Court deciding the Birthright Citizenship case by reaching the Constitution, rather than holding the executive order unlawful as violating the statute (INA), follows naturally from a week of opinions that strengthen #SCOTUS power overall.

Excited to share the cover and an early endorsement from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social for my forthcoming book, "The Carbon Wave." It's out Sept. 1! Preorders help the book travel further. The book is on sale this week with free shipping at Bookshop. Order your copy today! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This week's blog post is about what concentrated wealth does to civil society and political mobilization. (hint: it's all bad.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/organized-...

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

No matter where on this continent, our forests are living Country. They hold the stories of our Ancestors, shelter our totems, and sustain our waters, land and skies. They have stood through countless generations and they deserve protection.

Victorians were told native forest logging had ended. But this week Four Corners revealed Victorian taxpayers are now bankrolling the logging of Tasmania's native forests instead.

This is from the earthquake in Venezuela. Will our government, which now, according to Donald Trump, "owns" Venezuela, help these people? Trump is doing enormous damage. He has no concept of aid or compassion. He must be removed. And we must find a way to reassert the US's role in helping people.

All day long these mainstream dems out here saying “you’re busting up our racket” openly. These people don’t want to face the fact that it is precisely this politics that drove trump into the Oval Office. Twice.

He has been incarcerated since 18. Then he was deported to a third country. He is now 44 and free for the first time. This is barbaric by any measure.

Victorian teachers and education support staff have overwhelmingly rejected their proposed pay deal, in a rank-and-file rebellion against pay cuts, unbearable conditions in schools and their own union leadership.

I feel like the missing piece from the post mortems on Starmer is that his elevation came directly out of a project by a group of Labour insiders to undermine the leadership of their own party, ensure its defeat at the polls and discredit it with invented accusations of anti-semitism.

this is def one of those articles where you need to ignore the headline bc this is in-depth, good, and not what you'd think.

Incidentally, he fucking sucked as a bureaucrat, or a technocrat, or anything really. And he "stayed calm in interviews" because as he once said he had no interiority.

For the Arab Center I wrote about how displacement is a political project of erasure - not a simple outcome of war - especially when it comes to Israel's genocide in Palestine extending into Lebanon. arabcenterdc.org/resource/isr...

#LAW THREAD: Breaking: 1. Lawyers for the Christian Brothers told legal reps of clergy abuse survivors today they’re facing liquidation and will run out of funds by September this year after paying out $66 million last year paying victims and survivors. So they’re seeking a creditors’ scheme. BUT…

A recent Nature Biotech study revealed that my particular cat, Bueno, is the greatest of all time. I would like to congratulate all the runner-up felines in the study, but this is what the scientific method states; no hard feelings!

It’s a bit on the nose that the Obama Center keeps people waiting for hope and change in the Hope and Change Lobby™️

Hugely important story from Queensland where Indigenous people are being dropped from any positions of influence. This is just the start. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

this is one of the weirdest things conservative elites tell themselves and it's become load bearing to their entire anti anti Trump ideology

White women, this is why we look at you side-eyed when you decry your oppression at the hands of white male supremacy. You are raising your sons to benefit from privileged access even as you claim to decry such privilege.

And I'm gonna say it - These same assholes who believe in "medical autonomy" also want to make abortion and related reproductive health procedures unavailable.

Term that helps immeasurably in understanding what AI is and does: repertoire

Very excited that The Baffler has excerpted a section from one of my favourite chapters in THE ASSET CLASS. It asks: why does private equity, one of the richest industries on earth, suddenly want *your* money? thebaffler.com/latest/short...

I know this is a touchy subject, but traditional news has paywalls. social media does not. this has been inevitable.

The idea that Trump and Putin are leaders of great powers, holding the fate of the world in their hands is central to their political identities. They've both just been publicly humiliated by states they thought they could crush. They and their countries are weaker as a result.

The report also says Netanyahu has told Trump that Israel does not consider itself bound by the agreement, despite its requirement for an immediate and permanent end to the war in Lebanon. 2/2

People in Palestine are going hungry. In Gaza most of all but not just in Gaza.

Tufts, a university that happily pays its provost three quarters of a million dollars, has offered its custodial and grounds staff a raise of...64 cents. Solidarity with these workers fighting this utter classist bullshit.

Hanson is a massive whinger. Anyone worried about her should be finding ways to talk to the people who listen to her. Highlighting just how much of a massive whinger she is and always has been

A key point is that the threat is not to profitability as such. Decarbonization can be as profitable as the alternative. The threat is that collective decisions about decarbonization reduce private control over production. (I think this is felt more acutely by the tech owning class than by finance.)

glad to see Australia leading the way when it comes to extremely stupid policies.

His wife’s parents are ethnic Chinese Vietnamese boat people.